The committee’s only two female members voted in support of the effort, which compares unsolicited sexual images to a kind of digital indecent exposure. Del. Kelly Convirs-Fowler, D-Virginia Beach, speaking Thursday before the Virginia Senate’s Judiciary Committee. (Twitter image via Courthouse News).
RICHMOND, Va. (CN) Virginia’s Senate nixed a bill aiming to make unsolicited pictures of genitals or sex acts illegal after citing First Amendment concerns in a hearing Thursday.
“Sending an obscene picture should require consent from the recipient,” Delegate Kelly Convirs-Fowler argued regarding her bill, which sailed through the state’s House with unanimous consent.
When the US state of Virginia s largest school district began allowing students time off to protest in 2019, the backlash was swift and partisan: Conservative critics denounced Fairfax County Public Schools for coddling its too-liberal, too-sensitive youth and predicted kids would abuse the policy to play hooky. But a year later, the Virginia General Assembly is poised to pass legislation that will take Fairfax s policy statewide, permitting more than 680,000 middle and high school students across 130-plus school systems one excused absence every year to engage in a civic event.
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From left, Adrian Klaits and Matthew Savage of the Virginia Young Democrats Teen Caucus, and Josh Lyon of the Teenage Republican Federation of Virginia in Falls Church, Virginia.
General Assembly bill aimed at ending qualified immunity for police fails
Qualified Immunity WVIR By Daniel Grimes | February 2, 2021 at 9:09 AM EST - Updated February 2 at 9:17 PM
RICHMOND, Va. (WVIR) - A bill aimed at ending qualified immunity for police officers just failed in the General Assembly.
The legislative body in Richmond tackled police reform during a special session in 2020, but ending qualified immunity for law enforcement failed then and again in 2021.
State Senator Scott Surovell (D-37th) introduced the legislation with the goal of empowering victims of police brutality with a new tool.
“Basically, created a new civil cause of action based on some of the statutes that we passed during the special session,” Surovell said.
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